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Author	Sergey.Kirpichev
Recipients	JelleZijlstra, Sergey.Kirpichev, mark.dickinson, ned.deily, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, tim.peters
Date	2021-05-01.11:46:44
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:31:35AM +0000, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Well, that complicated things ;-) I suppose he can revive this if he wants. That was just to note: it wasn't my (=> bad & stupid) idea. Lets hope, he will note, even not being subscribed :-) > Perhaps after seeing how pervasive the change is he will be less inclined. Even CPython patch is small. Downstream changes are one-line patches, much smaller than usual CPython compatibility breaks. Just to note. > Jelle, Mark, and I have all thought about it and don't think it is worth the disruption. Agaist Guido and Terry. (I don't count Serhiy on your side.) > In 14 years we hadn't had user reports or any other evidence that word Integral is problematic, so it isn't that there is any problem to be solved. It's not too problematic, but can surprise users. Not just me - see example with Nick in the thread.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:31:35AM +0000, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Well, that complicated things ;-)  I suppose he can revive this if he wants.

That was just to note: it wasn't my (=> bad & stupid) idea.  Lets hope, he will
note, even not being subscribed :-)

> Perhaps after seeing how pervasive the change is he will be less inclined.

Even CPython patch is small.  Downstream changes are one-line patches,
much smaller than usual CPython compatibility breaks.  Just to note.

> Jelle, Mark, and I have all thought about it and don't think it is worth the disruption.

Agaist Guido and Terry.  (I don't count Serhiy on your side.)

> In 14 years we hadn't had user reports or any other evidence that word Integral is problematic, so it isn't that there is any problem to be solved.

It's not too problematic, but can surprise users.  Not just me - see
example with Nick in the thread.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-05-01 11:46:45	Sergey.Kirpichev	set	recipients: + Sergey.Kirpichev, tim.peters, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, ned.deily, serhiy.storchaka, JelleZijlstra
2021-05-01 11:46:45	Sergey.Kirpichev	link	issue32891 messages
2021-05-01 11:46:44	Sergey.Kirpichev	create